"To suppress free speech is a double wrong.
It violates the rights of the hearer
as well as those of the speaker."
by:
Frederick Douglass
[Frederick Baily] (1818-1895), escaped slave, Abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and later the New National Era
Source:
Speech, Boston, 1860
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TRUE. I notice no one gave this quote stars, but all the others high marks. Some people think freedom of speech only belongs to them.
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